Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers. Throughout, he shares inspiring examples of people who found what they were meant to do by embracing their own true measure of success. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime—one that will help you reevaluate your future and envision success on your own terms. Students and executives say that Richard Shell’s courses and executive training programs have changed their lives. Let this course change yours.

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Very helpful course changes my mind about success. I have heard the similar ideas from others, however, it makes a difference in a Wharton course. Recommend this to everyone.

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Mar 29, 2017

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After this course I was able at least to formulate these ideas on paper and tried to work out the plan. I think this is not the final action list, I can add more in future.

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Week 1: Launching Your Personal Search for Success

This module is designed to help you define success for yourself through exploring the hidden beliefs you hold about success. You'll learn the three truths of success, and the role of culture and family in defining success. You'll also participate in the "Six Lives" exercise, which will guide you to deeper questions of your beliefs about success, as well as how those beliefs compare to others. By the end of this module you'll be able to assess yourself, your values, and your images of what success means. As a result, you can begin to adapt the tools that will work for you to achieve whatever your definition of success is.

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Richard Shell

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Management

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When you unpack the word success for the first time, it's like a box, and you open a box, and you look inside. The first thing you notice and you probably notice this in the six lives exercise, because no matter which life you were reading, each of them had these two dimensions. So when you open the box and look inside, what you find is two boxes inside the box. I called one box the outer life, and the other box the inner life. The outer life has to do with achievements, career, recognition, celebrity, respect from others, the roles you play and the social occupations that you found your way to. And the outer life is what most people think of, when they just hear the word success. They think, someone's successful, it means that they are, the president of their bank, or they graduated from college, or they have some sort of invention that they made or something. So the outer life is what the media covers, the outer life is what magazines celebrate, and the outer life is what people get awards for. And for that reason, people often think that, that's all it is. But then there's this conundrum because if you take an average person on the street and you just ask them randomly, which I sometimes do just because it's my field. And I'm trying to kill time in a grocery store line while someone is counting pennies at the very beginning of the line to pay for their fruit salad. I asked somebody, I'm doing a little survey, what do you think success means? And if they're willing to answer the question and they don't think I'm too weird then they will be almost always inclined to say, well, I don't know. It seems to me like success is happiness. If you're happy, you're successful. And if you ask somebody what's your goal for your children, almost all of them would say, well, we just want them to be happy. So on one end you've got this societal point of view of the box of the outer life where all that we celebrate is achievements and career and position and status and on the other hand we have this inner life. The other part which is what most people resort to when they kind of think about they really care about. And so, there's just contradiction between these two sides of success. And a lot of what we're going to do together in this course and that you will be trying to resolve in your own life as you go through your life, is reconciling and integrating and balancing the outer life and thee inner life. And the credit you give yourself for having a life that is rich in its inner dimensions or highly recognized in its outer dimensions, and what happens between those two. I think it's often the case that we make choices in our lives that favor the outer life, and then we have regrets and second guessing because we've come up short on the inner life. I think it's hard to choose the inner life over the outer life. Sometimes because it looks so unimportant, but of course at the end of your life I think most people are pretty inclined to think that they would not say, gee, I wish I could have another day to be alive so I could work some more. I think they're probably going to be asking themselves for another day so they could be with the people they love for another day. So these two sides of success are going to be with us throughout the course and how you consider them a big theme in how we're going to analyze, break down, and think about all the different topics that we talk about. So in our next session, we'll be picking up some themes related to everything we've talked about so far.